University Press Of Kansas imprint: 325 books
The American Dream
In History, Politics, and Fiction
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2016
Life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness: these words have long represented the promise of America, a “shimmering vision of a fruitful country open to all who come, learn, work, save, invest, and play by the rules.” In 2004, Cal Jillson took stock of this vision and showed how the nation’s...
Iran-Contra
Reagan's Scandal and the Unchecked Abuse of Presidential Power
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2014
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Everything began to unravel on October 5, 1986, when a Nicaraguan soldier downed an American plane carrying arms to “Contra” guerrillas, exposing a tightly held U.S. clandestine program. A month later, reports surfaced that Washington had been covertly...
From Defeat to Victory
The Eastern Front, Summer 1944?Decisive and Indecisive Military Operations, Volume 2
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2016
By the summer of 1944, the war in Europe had reached a critical point. Both the western Allies and the Soviets possessed the initiative and forces capable of mounting strategic offensives against the German enemy. Writing a study of operations on first the Western then the Eastern Front, respected...
Realigning America
McKinley, Bryan, and the Remarkable Election of 1896
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2017
The presidential election of 1896 is widely acknowledged as one of only a few that brought about fundamental realignments in American politics. New voting patterns replaced old, a new majority party came to power, and national policies shifted to reflect new realities. R. Hal Williams now presents...
The War for Korea, 1945-1950
A House Burning
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2015
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When the major powers sent troops to the Korean peninsula in June of 1950, it supposedly marked the start of one of the last century's bloodiest conflicts. Allan Millett, however, reveals that the Korean War actually began with partisan clashes two years earlier and...
The Hemingway Log
A Chronology of His Life and Times
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2015
Few if any writers have made a mark as broad and deep as Ernest Hemingway, whose life and work—and even image—continue to permeate American culture more than a half-century after his death in 1961. And never has there been a chronology of the writer's life and times as comprehensive, detailed,...
Nancy Reagan
On the White House Stage
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2005
Many thought of her as Queen Nancy. Others as the Dragon Lady. But for millions of Americans, Nancy Reagan was the always-smiling and deeply admiring presidential spouse who stood by her man; that image lingers still in the touching picture of a bereaved widow at her husband's casket.
Nancy...
I Like Ike
The Presidential Election of 1952
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2017
When the 1952 presidential election campaign began, many assumed it would be a race between Harry Truman, seeking his second full term, and Robert A. Taft, son of a former president and, to many of his fellow partisans, “Mr. Republican.” No one imagined the party standard bearers would be Illinois...
By One Vote
The Disputed Presidential Election of 1876
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2017
With electoral votes disputed in three states, a Democrat winning the popular vote, and the Supreme Court stepping in to overrule Florida court decisions, the presidential election of 1876 was an eerie precursor to that of 2000. Rutherford Hayes's defeat of Samuel Tilden has been dubbed the "fraud...
The White House Vice Presidency
The Path to Significance, Mondale to Biden
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2016
“I am nothing, but I may be everything,” John Adams, the first vice president, wrote of his office. And for most of American history, the “nothing” part of Adams’s formulation accurately captured the importance of the vice presidency, at least as long as the president had a heartbeat. But...
The First Modern Clash over Federal Power
Wilson versus Hughes in the Presidential Election of 1916
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2016
Fully examined for the first time in this engrossing book by one of America’s preeminent presidential scholars, the election that pitted Woodrow Wilson against Charles Evan Hughes emerges as a clear template for the partisan differences of the modern era. The 1916 election dramatically enacted the...
The American Political Pattern
Stability and Change, 1932-2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2016
Politicians are polarized. Public opinion is volatile. Government is gridlocked. Or so journalists and pundits constantly report. But where are we, really, in modern American politics, and how did we get there? Those are the questions that Byron E. Shafer aims to answer in The American Political Pattern....
The Presidency of George H. W. Bush
Second Edition, Revised
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2015
Shortly after George H. W. Bush lost his re-election bid to Bill Clinton in 1989, John Robert Greene's verdict on the 41st president of the United States was that he "brought no discredit to the office" and "Bush was both patient and prudent. . . mak [ing] few mistakes." In the...
by James N. Giglio
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2006
The presidency of John F. Kennedy continues to fascinate, even as it also continues to inspire heated debates between admirers and detractors of Camelot's fallen king. Now readers can gain a new appreciation of JFK in this thoroughly revised and updated edition of James Giglio's bestselling study,...